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Anthony Pateras (b.1979) is a multidisciplinary musician living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Solo, he appears on piano or analogue electronics, and composes written works for ensembles, orchestras and soloists.

Pateras performs internationally, recent highlights including the Sydney Opera House and Hamer Hall (Melbourne) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, solo at Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) and the Why Note Festival (Dijon), festival engagements in France (Densités), Poland (Focus) the Czech Republic (Alternativa) with his free music trio Pateras/Baxter/Brown, and his electronics project with Robin Fox at Musique Action (Nancy), Moers Festival (Moers) and Festival NPAI (Niort) – the duo's albums are being published by the influential electronics imprint Editions Mego (Vienna).

In addition to his main solo, duo and trio projects, Anthony Pateras has collaborated with The Necks, Paul Lovens, Jérôme Noetinger, Clayton Thomas, Thomas Lehn, Natasha Anderson and Anthony Burr, and has guested on albums by Oren Ambarchi (Southern Lord) and Christian Fennesz (Touch). He has also recently begun ongoing collaborations with drummer Max Kohane (PIVIXKI) and visual artist Marco Fusinato (Poletopra).

Pateras's written works have received performances from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Percussion Group The Hague, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vanessa Tomlinson, Flux String Quartet and Ear Massage Percussion Quartet. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as James McMillan, Brett Dean and Markus Stenz, and released his second portrait disc for John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2008.

He was the recipient of the 2007 Ian Potter Emerging Composer Fellowship, and in 2009, Speak Percussion in collaboration with Clocked Out Productions will stage concerts of his entire percussion oeuvre at the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Queensland Music Festival.

Anthony Pateras's unique prepared piano work was featured on the soundtrack to the film Wolf Creek, and his own film music has been played at Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, Palm Springs and Sao Paulo film festivals, among others. Notably, his soundtrack for Eron Sheean's Bing won the best music award at the 2003 Dresden Film Festival.

He has curated concerts in Melbourne since 2001, being the artistic director of the 2008 Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music (MIBEM) and the Articulating Space performance series and festival. Additionally, he has participated in group sound exhibitions at San Francisco MOMA (Variable Resistance), Centre Pompidou (Ecoute), and the Melbourne International Arts Festival (21:100:100).

Pateras holds a PhD from Monash University, currently teaches composition at the Victorian College of the Arts, and temporarily at WAAPA in Perth.

Biography provided by the composer — current to March 2009